Self and archer martin



- A. OARMAN.

(No Model.)

SAD IRON.

Patented May 6, 1890.

WITNESSES:

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ALBERT OARMAN, OF \VINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND AROHER MARTIN, OF SAME PLACE.

SAD-IRON.

, SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,298, dated May 6, 1890.

Application filed May 28, 1889- Serial No 312,415. (No model.)

To CLZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT OARMAN, of Winnipeg, in the Province of Manitoba and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sad-Irons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to improvements in sad-irons; and it consists in the particular construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, an d pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a sad-iron embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a partly broken and sectional plan view of the same with a top cover, with which the sadiron is provided, removed; Fig. 3, a mainly sectional longitudinal elevation upon the line w w in Fig. 2; Figs. at and 5, transverse sections upon the lines 00 0c and yy, respectively, in Fig. 3; Fig. 6, an inside face view of a certain side cover or lid detached, and Fig. 7 is a detail sectional view of the rear end of the body and cover.

A is the hollow body of the sad-iron, which may be cast in a single piece, and which has opposite vertical side walls I) I), joined at the ends, and a transverse partition 0 at a suitable distance from the front end of the iron, to form, in connection with the sides I) b and ends of the iron, a front or end chamber B, closed below, which portion constitutes the hollow pressing-block of the sad-iron, and to further form or leave in rear of said chamber 13 a space or chamber 0, open both above and below, adapted to receive the hollow pressingroller D.

The top of the hollow body A is provided with a removable cover E, on which are erected the stanchions G G, that carry the wooden or other handle H. This cover E is fitted to its place by sliding and entering it down Within upper raised portions of the side walls I) b and projecting its one or front end under an end cap d on the body and within a groove 6 in the latter, while the other end of said cover sits down on the cross-piece f of the body and down within cleat-like projections g gthereon, when the cover may be secured inplace by a spring-catch h onit, that may be provided with a suitable knob, engaging with a stud i on the cross-piece f.

The chamber B is designed to contain a loose heating solid metal core I, which may be readily entered down within said chamber or be removed therefrom, as required, by releasing the catch of the cover E and lifting off or removing said cover. roller D is also made to contain a removable heating metal core J.

Each sad-iron may have any number of additional cores I J,thatin practice maybe kept heated to replace the cores in the iron as they cool, and to provide for reheating the latter without occasioning serious delay in launder ing goods by the iron.

Then the heated cores are in their place in the implement, the necessary heat of course will be transmitted through that shell portion of the body of the iron and base-piece of the chamber 13 which constitutes the fixed pressing-block of the iron, and through the movable shell or hollow pressing-roller D, that pro- The hollow pressing-- jects slightly below the bottom of the body of the sad-iron, which latter may be manipulated over its work as ordinary sad-irons are.

To the side walls Z) Z) of the body A, which are suitably apertured and recessed for the purpose, are fitted opposite sidelids K K, covering the space occupied by the hollow pressing-roller. These lids are each made with a proj ecting circular inner rim or flange portion 70, adapted to form bearings for and to receive freely over them the open ends of the hollow pressing-roller D, and by removing these lids said roller may be readily entered to its place through the open bottom of the body A, and may be as readily removed when necessary to clean or replace it. Ordinarily, however, it

will only be necessary to remove one of said lids K for the purpose of inserting and removing the heating-core J and this lid, that may be provided with aknob Z, may be secured in position by sliding it to its place over a guide-like projection m on the bottom of the side of the main body passing through a recess n in said lid K, so as to bring key-holes 0 0, with which said lid is provided, in line with rotatable catches or pins 8 s, projecting from the body A and having a lip 01' ear on their outer end. By turning these catches or buttons so that their lips or ears will be in line with the key-holes 0 0 the said side lid may be readily fitted to its place or removed, as required, and when in its place maybe fastened therein by turning the catches 83 so that theirvlips or cars come out of line With the key-holes. The cores I J virtually form a part, as it were, of the fixed presser-block and pressing-roller portions of the sad-iron, inasmuch as, in addition to their heating function, they give the necessary weight thereto.

The stationary or fixed hollow heated pressin g-block portion of the iron operates very advantageously to prepare the surface to be ironed for the after smoothing and ironing action of the heated pressing-roller, and the two pressing portions combined act much more effectually than either one separately could do. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a hand sad-iron, the combination, with the hollow body A, having an open-bottomed chamber 0, of lids or covers to said chamber ALBERT CARMAN. Witnesses:

D. F. SINCLAIR, T. HANOVER. 

